Family of Fulk III + FITZWARIN and Maude + of VAVASOUR

Husband:	Fulk III + FITZWARIN (1175- )
Wife:	Maude + of VAVASOUR (1176-1226)
Children:	Fulk IV + FITZWARIN (1210-1264)
	Hawise FITZWARIN (1210- )
Marriage	1 Aug 1207	Yorkshire, England

Husband: Fulk III + FITZWARIN

Wife: Maude + of VAVASOUR

Name:	Maude + of VAVASOUR
Sex:	Female
Father:	Robert + of VAVASOUR (1153-1234)
Mother:	Julian + of ROS (1155- )
Birth	1176	Edlington, Wesr Riding, Yorkshire, England
Occupation		Baroness of Butler
Title		Baroness of Butler
Death	1226 (age 49-50)

Child 1: Fulk IV + FITZWARIN

Name:	Fulk IV + FITZWARIN
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Constance + of TONI (1215- )
Birth	1210	Alveston, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation		Knight
Title		Sir
Death	14 May 1264 (age 53-54)	Ouse river, France

Child 2: Hawise FITZWARIN

Name:	Hawise FITZWARIN
Sex:	Female
Birth	3 Feb 1210

Note on Husband: Fulk III + FITZWARIN

Fulk FitzWarin (also called Fulke or Fouke FitzWaryn or FitzWarren) was a medieval landed gentleman turned outlaw, from Whittington Castle in the English county of Shropshire. The traditional story of his life survives in a French prose "ancestral romance", extant in a miscellaneous manuscript containing English, French and Latin texts, which is based on a lost verse romance. A 16th century summary of a Middle English version has also been preserved.

 

According to the tale, as a young boy, Fulk was sent to the court of King Henry II, where he grew up with the future King John. John became his enemy after a childhood quarrel. As an adult, Fulk was stripped of his family's holdings, and took to the woods as an outlaw. His wife was Maud le Vavasour. The story may combine aspects of the lives of two Fulk FitzWarins, father and son, who lived in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The tale of Fulk FitzWarin has been noted for its parallels to the Robin Hood legend. (See the Introduction to Fouke le Fitz Waryn, edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren, originally published in Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.) It is also similar to that of other medieval outlaws such as Eustace the Monk and Hereward the Wake.

 

Fulk Fitzwarin II is included in the stained glass window at St Laurence Church, Ludlow.

Note on Wife: Maude + of VAVASOUR

Maud le Vavasour, Baroness Butler (d. before 1226) was an Anglo-Norman heiress and the wife of Fulk FitzWarin,[1] a medieval landed gentleman who was forced to become an outlaw in the early 13th century. Part of the legend of Robin Hood might be based on him.

 

By her first marriage to Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler, Maud was the ancestress of the Butler Earls of Ormond.

 

Maud le Vavasour was the daughter of Robert le Vavasour, deputy sheriff of Lancashire (1150–1234), and his first wife, an unnamed daughter of Adam de Birkin [2]. She had two half-brothers, Sir John le Vavasour who married Alice Cockfield, by whom he had issue and Mauger le Vavasour of Denton. Maud's paternal grandfather was William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazlewood, and Justiciar of England. Her maternal grandfather was Adam fitz Peter of Birkin.

 

Maud was heiress to properties in Edlington, Yorkshire and Narborough in Leicestershire.

 

 

King John of England with whom Maud's husband Fulk FitzWarin quarrelled[edit] Marriages and issueIn or shortly before 1200, Maud married her first husband Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler (died February 1206), son of Hervey Walter and Maud de Valoignes, and went to live in Ireland. His brother Hubert Walter was Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1185, Theobald had been granted land by Prince John, who was then Lord of Ireland. He was appointed Butler of Ireland in 1192,[3] and High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1194.

 

Theobald and Maud had three children:

 

a female (dead by 1240), married as his first wife Sir Gerald de Prendergast by whom she had issue, including Marie de Prendergast, who in her turn married Sir John de Cogan and had issue. We know about her only because a later inquisition claimed that Gerald married a "sister of Theobald pincerna", no name is given to her, and no dates.

Theobald le Botiller, chief Butler of Ireland (by 1199 - 19 July 1230), who married firstly Joan du Marais, daughter of Geoffrey du Marais and Eva de Bermingham, and had a son Theobald le Botiller (1224–1248), who married Margery de Burgh, daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, and Egidia de Lacy (daughter of Walter de Lacy and Margaret de Braose), and from whom descended the Earls of Ormond. Theobald le Botiller, chief Butler of Ireland married secondly, after 4 September 1225, Rohese de Verdon (1205- 10 February 1247), daughter of Nicholas de Verdon and Joan de Lacy, by whom he had a son and daughter: John le Botiller de Verdon, Lord of Westmeath (1226–1274), who married Margery de Lacy (1229- after 10 June 1276), by whom he had issue, and Maud le Botiller de Verdon, who upon her marriage to John Fitzalan became the 6th Countess of Arundel, and from whom descended the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.

Following the death of Theobald in early February 1206, Maud returned to England into the custody of her father, who, having bought the right of marrying her at the price of 1200 marks and two palfreys, gave her in marriage by October 1207, to Fulk FitzWarin.[4] Fulk was the son of Fulk FitzWarin and Hawise de Dinan, who subsequent to a violent quarrel with King John of England, was deprived of his lands and property by the vengeful king. Fulk then sought refuge in the woods and became an outlaw, with Maud having accompanied him. The legendary figures of Robin Hood and Maid Marian are said to be based on Fulk and Maud.[5]

 

By FitzWarin, Maud had a son and a daughter:

 

1.Sir Fulk FitzWarin (1208-14 May 1264), married firstly, Clarice d 'Auberville, by whom he had a daughter, Mabel FitzWarin (1248–1296), who in turn married firstly John de Crevequer, and secondly, Sir John Tregoze, Baron Tregoze (1245–1300), son of Robert II Tregoze, Lord of Ewyas Harold, and Juliane de Cantelou, and had issue. Fulk married secondly, Constance de Toeni (1225–1265), by whom he had a son, Fulk FitzWarin and a daughter, Hawise FitzWarin, both of whom married and had issue.

2.Hawise FitzWarin (born 3 February 1210), married firstly William Pantulf, by whom she had issue, and secondly, Hubert Huse.

[edit] DeathMaud le Vavasour died sometime before 1226. She had numerous descendants including the Earls of Ormond, the Earls of Arundel, Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn and Elizabeth I.